anchovy pear
English
Noun
anchovy pear (plural anchovy pears)
- A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled.
- The tree Grias cauliflora bearing this fruit.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for anchovy pear in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)